2Bites provides therapy & nutrition support for picky eaters.
2Bites work together with your family/whanau to make mealtimes happy, healthy and stress free. We help children who are picky eaters or problem feeders to learn to eat new foods and work towards a healthy, varied diet.
Almost all children will go through a phase of fussy eating but for a variety of reasons a small number of these children cannot move on and feeding becomes an issue. The following red flags give some clues as to when you might need our help with feeding:
- You've tried the usual tips people suggest, like asking your child to "just take a bite" or having your child serve themselves, and it just isn't working
- Most mealtimes are a battle causing you and your child to feel stressed
- You need to use distraction (like a screen or a toy) to get your child to eat
- You had difficulty moving your baby on to solids, or your child drinks lots of milk when they need to be moving on to mainly solids
- In early days you were dealing with reflux, a tongue or lip tie or other feeding difficulties
- Your child chokes, gags, vomits or coughs during eating or drinking
- There are less than 20 foods your child will accept
- There are whole texture groups not accepted by child (e.g. no crunchy food or no soft foods), or whole nutrition groups (e.g. no vegetables or no meats)
- Your child needs food prepared in a certain way and becomes very upset by tiny changes in brand, texture (little bits!) or even colour
- You or your health professional have concerns about growth or lack of nutrients
2Bites is here to help you move on from picky eating...
All treatment and therapy is completely individualized to your child. Our service is fully integrated with all sessions led by both Speech Language Therapist/Feeding Specialist and Dietitian. Eating is complex! Having both professionals at all appointments means that you can be sure we cover all bases of eating and drinking; nutritional, oro-motor, sensory and behavioural.
Between us we have over 25 years’ experience helping families with children of all ages. We have worked in hospitals, schools and the community. We have combined our skills and experience to help your family move on from picky eating.
Feedback from our families
"Your professional manner, expertise and enthusiasm were invaluable...We continue to be encouraged to make the effort based around your fabulous resources provided to us for home use and the experience of making food fun and linking it to good health."
"It is great to know we're not alone in our child's journey to trying and enjoying a variety of foods." Parent of 6yr old
"We were having huge difficulties with our son's mealtime behaviours and fussy eating. Sophie and Siobhan helped us find out exactly what his difficulties were and put strategies in place to help him. We now have a kid who is open to trying new foods and will sit at the table to eat his meals. We will continue to recommend 2Bites to our friends and family struggling with their children's eating habits." Parent of 3yr old
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